1. The Roman Empire
27 B.C. – 476 A.D.

2. Terms—The Roman Empire
Roman Empire (27 BC – 476 AD)
2nd Triumvirate
(Antony, Lepidus & Octavian)
Octavian (27 BC – 14 AD)”
“Augustus”
Augustan Age – Pax Romana
Deification (Tiberius)
“Bad Emperors”
Claudius, Caligula, Nero
“Good Emperors”
Trajan, Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius

3. Second Triumverate Marc Antony -- Political 2nd in Command
Lepidus Military 2nd in Command
Octavian -- Adopted nephew

4. Octavian –1st Emperor of Rome 27 B.C. – 14 A.D.

5. Roman Empire Under Octavian
Princeps=“First Citizen”
Principate = Government of the early empire

6. “Bread and Circuses”

7. Pax Romana—”The Roman Peace”

8. "I found Rome built of sun-dried bricks. I leave her covered in marble
"I found Rome built of sun-dried bricks. I leave her covered in marble.“ (Augustus)

9. Roman Empire

10. Roman Roads

11. Aqueducts

12. How the Aqueducts Worked

13. “Citizenship” Legal protection Belonging Can appeal to Roman justice
By 212 AD—Emperor Caracalla decrees all free inhabitants of Roman world are citizens

14. Deification of Augustus at Death

15. Three of the “Bad” Emperors
Tiberius
Caligula
Nero

16. Tiberius (14 CE - 37 CE)

17. Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus OR Caligula—”Little Boots” (r

18. Caligula and Incitatus (“Swift”) in the Senate

19. Dinner with Incitatus

20. Nero (r. 54 – 68)

21. Nero’s Remorse After Murdering His Mother

22. Nero and the Burning of Rome

23. Three of the “Good” Emperors
Trajan
Hadrian
Marcus Aurelius

24. Trajan –”The Best of Princes” (98 – 117)

25. Hadrian (r. 117 – 138)

26. Empire Under Hadrian

27. Hadrian’s Wall

28. Marcus Aurelius—The “Philosopher-King” (r. 161 – 180)

29. Quotes from Meditations
“Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. “ Marcus Aurelius “Confine yourself to the present.”
Marcus Aurelius